This year you are lucky enough to have:

Miss White-class teacher

Miss Green-Teaching assistant 

Mrs Warren-PPA cover (Monday morning)

Mondays-Street dance with Ms Croft

Fridays-Tennis (outdoor)

For PE sessions please refer to the uniform policy and bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

Children complete a star reading test every term which gives them a new 'ZPD'. This is a code which corresponds to a book suitable for the reading level of your child. It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day. Once your child finishes their book, they will complete a quiz testing how well they have understood the book. Their word count is logged and if they get all of the questions right on the quiz, they join the '100 per cent club'!  It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class reading records will be checked and books changed once quizzes are completed.

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

Year 6 - Summer 1

As mathematicians, we will:

• Revise the year 6 curriculum, will particular focus on the four operations and fractions, decimals and percentages
• Apply our knowledge to reasoning problems
• Work through arithmetic calculations, increasing our calculation speed

As writers we will…

• Recap KS2 grammar and spelling rules 
• Edit and improve independent writing pieces 
• Write for a range of purposes and genres

As readers we will aim to revise the following VIPERS skills: 

• V - Vocabulary questions exploring how to deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words as well as understanding of how word choice affects meaning and tone.
• I - Inference questions check their ability to "read between the lines" — to use clues in the text along with their own knowledge to work out something that isn’t directly stated.
• P - Prediction questions encourage pupils to use evidence from what they’ve read so far to guess what might happen next. It builds on inference skills but looks forward rather than interpreting what’s already happened.
• E - Explain style questions focus on giving reasons or justify something using evidence from the text. These questions help children show their understanding by going beyond simple recall.
• R - Retrieval style questions alongside using the text tracking method to find and recall facts or details directly from the text — no guesswork or inference needed. The answer is right there in the text, often word-for-word or very close.
• S - Summary questions ask pupils to identify the main ideas from a section of text or summarise events, usually in the order they happen. These questions assess whether pupils can condense information and understand key points rather than every detail.

As children who value our relationships we will aim to:

• Understand how name calling and rumour spreading are challenging behaviours.
• Know the different stages of grief.
• Know what causes people to grieve.
• Understand what confidentiality is and when it is right to break this.
• Know what the different types of relationships are and what constitutes a positive, healthy relationship.
• Understand the different types of marriages and what the difference is between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage.
• Understanding the term normal and discussing if the term ‘normal’ should be used. 

As children who value learning about different religions and beliefs, we will:

• Consider who is invited into God's kingdom
• Consider the importance of forgiveness
• Find out how Christian Aid tries to make a world more like God's Kingdom
• Learn what the features of God's kingdom and Jesus' kingship are

As linguists we will…

• Notice and apply verb endings in the present tense.
• Ask and answer questions using different verb forms.
• Extract key information from written texts.
• Recognise and translate a range of descriptive phrases.
• Construct a descriptive text based on a model.
• Express opinions and preferences in comparative sentences.

As cricketers we will…

• Know to slide our bats over the crease when running 
• Throw accurately overarm 
• Grip the bat correctly
• Know which calls to use when batting 
• Learn to bowl with a run up
• Know when to play a square cut shot 
• Bowl out of the back of my hand
• Link skills and learn to play competitive games